Python Equivalent To PHP True False line

Question

In PHP, you would do something like:

$answer = ($x != null) ? true : false

instead of doing:

if($x != null) { 
    $answer = true;
} else {
    $answer = false;
}

Is there anyway to do this in python? I've tried to google and to search in here but I couldn't find anything, plus google doesn't take symbols into searching. You might say, why didn't you google search it by name? Well I do not know what that type of line code is called.

Read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/394809/does-python-have-a-ternary-conditional-operator — aldrin27, Sep 26 '15 at 08:23

Rahul Gupta · Answer 1 · 2015-09-26T08:42:03.457

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If you want to use a ternary conditional operator in Python for the above code, You can do something like:

answer = True if x is not None else False # Using ternary conditional operator

Note: Same code can be written using the below line if ternary operator is not to be used

answer = x is not None # returns True/False

edited Sep 26 '15 at 08:42

answered Sep 26 '15 at 08:23

Rahul Gupta

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That's a long way of writing `answer = x is not None`. – juanchopanza Sep 26 '15 at 08:30

Python Equivalent To PHP True False line

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